Lager, NOT larger!

[DocAnna]

My son thinks I'm at the forefront of the grammar Gestapo, though I am all too fond of my ... ellipsis. He does accuse me of having infected him with the verbal tick of muttering 'fewer' under his breath while listening to other people use 'less' incorrectly. My personal bugbear though is 'advise' and 'advice' which I see from colleagues written incorrectly which takes me from calm to wound up in a fraction of a second. I do have to admit to struggling with spelling as a child, and even now will have to check words ending -ant and -ent for spelling, such as adament/adamant, so I do have a lot of sympathy for those who need to check such things rather than understand them inherently. Now, if you really wish to wind me up then use American spellings such as color, sulfur and hemoglobin ... but to really really have Anna wide-eyed and gritting her teeth ... refer to studying Math at school

Noah Webster has an awful lot to apologise for. The only salve being that not all his amended spellings were accepted : 26 of Noah Webster’s Spelling Changes That Didn’t Catch On

Anna

 

[Stevieboy]

Aluminum...just for you Anna

 

[Cheshire Cat]

My son thinks I'm at the forefront of the grammar Gestapo, though I am all too fond of my ... ellipsis. He does accuse me of having infected him with the verbal tick of muttering 'fewer' under his breath while listening to other people use 'less' incorrectly. My personal bugbear though is 'advise' and 'advice' which I see from colleagues written incorrectly which takes me from calm to wound up in a fraction of a second. I do have to admit to struggling with spelling as a child, and even now will have to check words ending -ant and -ent for spelling, such as adament/adamant, so I do have a lot of sympathy for those who need to check such things rather than understand them inherently. Now, if you really wish to wind me up then use American spellings such as color, sulfur and hemoglobin ... but to really really have Anna wide-eyed and gritting her teeth ... refer to studying Math at school

Noah Webster has an awful lot to apologise for. The only salve being that not all his amended spellings were accepted : 26 of Noah Webster’s Spelling Changes That Didn’t Catch On

Anna

Anna
You don't kneed to spell correctly as in your profession no one can read your writing anyway.

 

[DocAnna]

Anna
You don't kneed to spell correctly as in your profession no one can read your writing anyway.

When I worked in day time general practice, my staff were very happy when we moved to computerised notes and they no longer had to decipher my handwriting, so yes that's a very fair point .

 

[Stevieboy]

Dontcha mean computerized...

 

[MickDundee]

Aluminum...just for you Anna

Barenaked Ladies did a song called “Aluminum” with the chorus:
Aluminum to me
Aluminium to some
You can shine like silver all you want
But you’re just aluminum

It’s one of my favourite songs by them, but I feel a right numpty singing along to it.

 

[DocAnna]

I should have know this thread would be triggering for me . I've already had to accept significant changes to the names of medications to the 'International' (read that as American) spellings in 2004 https://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/cmo/CMO(2004)03.pdf which was quite a period of adjustment but I'm ok with these now, though still find the ph to f change in cephalexin annoying. Similarly, I coped with the loss of the umlaut from oöcyte and just about coped with the loss of the o from fetus... only because the o was a Victorian addition to the latin root.

Ok I'm going to go back in to hiding rather than providing more ammunition for 'how to wind Anna up'

 

[Stevieboy]

As a Motorheadbanger, you can never have too many Umlauts....

 

[Cwrw666]

Aluminum...just for you Anna

Aluminum is obviously correct if you check the periodic table as it fits in with Strontum, Magnesum, Uranum, Plutonum, Paladum, Radum, Sodum etc.

 

[chopps]

Haha! Fantastic @Cwrw666
I bought a premum aluminum aquarum once and put it in my solarum.

 

[Stevieboy]

Doesn't sell well in the USA.....

 

[531Man]

There’s a growing number of people who seem to think it’s “and I” all the time and that “and me” is always wrong.

I remember being taught to take away the other person’s name from the sentence and see whether it would make sense.

Agreed, like this simple guide - by taking away the 'you' :

If you could say 'We' then it's (you and) I.
If you could say 'Us' then it's (you and) ME.
For example:

I (we - you and I) gave Dave a present.
Dave gave me (us - you and me) a present.

I mean you wouldn't say,
"Us gave Dave a present" ,
Nor,
"Dave gave we a present" ,
Would you?
That's the closest to making sense I can describe it.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Spelling Scotch Whisky with an "e".

 

[MickDundee]

Spelling Scotch Whisky with an "e".

When I was doing my accountancy training, I was sent on an audit to a distillery with our Australian secondee.

I thought the distillery’s Finance Director was going to punch him in the face, he wrote “whiskey” so many times on his Matters Arising document!

 

[chthon]

Spelling Scotch Whisky with an "e".

Doesn't that become Irish then?

 

[DavidDetroit]

Interesting thread. Not sure why different spellings "wind people up." Yeah, I know about placement with quotation marks. I only get angry when someone corrects another, especially one who's clearly not capable of more.

I've not seen someone replace "lager" with "larger" until now. On the sister-site, I've seen someone get out of sorts over "Belgian" and "Belgium."

On both sites, I just correct all the posts I read in my head just enough to understand them. It's automatic and I wouldn't normally give it a second thought except for this thread bringing it to my attention.

 

[xozzx]

Where, were, we're. I can't stand people who get them wrong, their all idiots.

 

[Tripster]

Surely It's litres not liters

 

[Bold_Ron]

Grammar - The difference between knowing your s**t and knowing you're s**t.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Is it
On the wagon
Or
On the waggon